Vikas Mishra profile and information

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Vikas Mishra is an applied economist with research interest in food policy, nutrition security, consumer demand, and health economics. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Auburn University in the Hunger Solutions Institute and Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics and an Applied Statistics Certificate from Texas A&M University. At Auburn university, he works on two projects: (i) the Healthy Fluid Milk Incentive program and (ii) Double Up Food Bucks Alabama, and evaluates how these incentive programs influence healthy eating and food choice behaviors among SNAP participants. Additionally, his research focuses on food related topics such as food prices, food at home and food away from home, the US food environment, and dietary quality. He uses large secondary datasets and quasi experimental methods in his research and has expertise in conducting online randomized experiments to evaluate policy-relevant interventions.